Keywords

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The Foundation carried out the following activities in support of this goal:

  1. 1.

    An assessment of priorities derived from a review of worldwide large scale experimental facilities, research programs, and research needs assessments carried out in the past 20 years;

  2. 2.

    Development of a straw man assessment of research needs through dialogue and selected meetings with the structural fire engineering industry and research community to assess their priorities for large scale experimental research, including:

    1. (a)

      meeting with representatives from major structural and fire protection materials companies who participate in the American Society of Testing and Materials Fire Test Committee;

    2. (b)

      email dialogue with the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, American Institute of Steel Construction, American Concrete Institute, and American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Committees;

    3. (c)

      meeting with structural fire experts in lead engineering organizations who participate in the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Fire and Safety Working Group;

    4. (d)

      meeting with the International Forum on Fire Research;

    5. (e)

      email dialogue with the SiFire Scientific Committee;

    6. (f)

      a teleconference with an Ad-Hoc Committee of U.S. based researchers with interests in structural fire engineering;

    7. (g)

      and other sources;

  3. 3.

    Development of a prioritized list of research needs through a one day meeting/workshop held in September of 2011 at the NIST facilities in Gaithersburg, MD.